Swimming Travel Tips for Panama City

For a list of all the municipal swimming pools in Panama City, see Piscinas on the city's website.

For admission to a municipal swimming pool, you'll need a Carnet para el Uso de las Piscinas (Pool Use Card), which can be obtained at any of the city's pools. To apply for the carnet (card), you need to complete an (a href="https://transparencia.mupa.gob.pa/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/solicituddecarnetparaelusodelaspiscinas.pdf" target="_blank">APPLICATION, provide two passport-size photographs, and present a medical certificate of good health. The passport photos can be obatined anywhere, the certificate can be obtained at any clinic (clinica) in town. In January, one swimmer paid $3.00 for the photos and $7.00 for a medical certificate. The medical "exam" consisted of asking whether the swimmer had asthma, and a blood pressure test.

Swimming Travel Tips for Panama City

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